Hermione, join me as Minister of Magic!

"Ah, I almost forgot that you were a duel champion when you were young!" He exaggeratedly made a "suddenly enlightened" expression, "I am wondering who should I invite to be my guiding guest, since you are willing, then It doesn't get any better than this...

Professor Flitwick shook his head quickly: "I'm not the only one, Gilderoy, my courses are also very heavy, it's impossible to go and read them every day."

"What does 'not just you' mean?" Lockhart didn't understand.

"That is to say, Professor Snape, Professor McGonagall and I, we will take turns to take a look at it." Flitwick pointed to himself and said, "I have no class on Tuesday afternoon, Professor Snape has no class on Thursday afternoon, McGonagall Professor Ge is on Monday, if you..."

"Friday, which is today."

"So, then we just need to find another teacher on duty on Wednesday night." Professor Flitwick pondered for a while, "I'll ask Mrs. Hooch or Professor Kettleburn..."

"Professor Kettleburn from the Magical Creatures class?" Lockhart wondered, isn't Wu still in school for probation? "

"...Oh, yes. But it doesn't matter. This is the 62nd time he has been on probation since he came to Hogwarts this year, and I heard that he plans to resign next year. Dumbledore is looking for a new teacher of magical creatures .”

Lockhart felt that there were many flaws in his words, but it was a pity that he couldn't spit them out.

I can just find the instructor for the third grade myself... I don’t know how to thank you for letting you bother so much about my affairs. ’ he said gratefully.

Professor Flitwick did not take the credit: "You don't need to thank us, this is the headmaster's intention."

Heart

"headmaster?"

"The principal said, 'Since there are rare things that students are willing to take the initiative to learn, and

There's no harm yet, so why not let us try it?Never give up on changing just because reality is too ordinary'”

"Sounds like something Dumbledore could say," agreed Lockhart.

"I think so too, Gilderoy. The headmaster seems to take this matter very seriously. If all goes well, Hogwarts will add a new glorious tradition, which will undoubtedly add a lot to our Ravenclaws." .”

Lockhart understood what Professor Flitwick said: "I will never shame Ravenclaw."

Although it is not clear why Dumbledore took the initiative to cooperate with him to form a club, Lockhart felt that he could guess a little bit.

No matter how much Lao Deng knew about his purpose, as long as he didn't interfere with him, Lockhart would be happy to pretend to be confused. Anyway, the two sides would talk again in the end.

After hearing what Lockhart said, Professor Flitwick looked very happy.

"As long as you have this kind of thought!" Flitwick jumped up and slapped Lockhart hard on the back ribs, "Professor Snape said that he would be willing to be your duel opponent and demonstrate to the students how to duel .”

Lockhart's eyeballs almost popped out of his own eyes.

"Professor Snape! And me?" he asked incredulously.

"Yes." Professor Flitwick said naturally, "Most of the students have only heard of duels. In the past ten years, even young wizards from pure-blood families have rarely been exposed to duels. You have to tell students that duels are what."

Lockhart was about to collapse: "But, Dean, if the difference in strength is too big, it seems useless to demonstrate."

Flitwick looked Lockhart up and down: "It's not a good habit to be too proud, Gilderoy, Professor Snape is very strong."

I mean I'm weak!I was so weak in front of Snape that I stood with a big white goose

The same as before Jack the Ripper - Lockhart almost shouted.

Do you think I don't know how strong Snape is?Dumbledore chose him as the executor of his plan!The recognized No.1 under Voldemort among the Death Eaters!

Don't look at Flitwick's undefeated duel champion when he was young, and his strength is indeed ridiculously strong, but in the 7+1 volumes of the book, the only time Flitwick was defeated was by Snape's sneak attack.

The reason why I dare to teach duels and team fights to the fourth and sixth graders is nothing more than the police training manual I got from the Muggles, and various No.1 shooting games that became popular all over the world, what crossfire; what The bluffing concepts of assault, blasting, and snipers are all copied.

Anyway, Lockhart thinks that the wand is biubiubiu, which is no different from a pistol (Harry: Ron, this thing is much better than a wand!? jpg), and all range magic is nothing more than a little more advanced grenade and flashbang , the situation is different but the reason is the same, if it is combined with some practical spells, it is a proper wizard fighting method.

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But can such an approach really defeat Snape?

A sharp blade swung over without a shadow. Given that Lockhart has just recovered a little bit of magic power, I'm afraid that no amount of protection can protect his handsome face—maybe Snape will delay the use of white essence , leaving scars on purpose.

Wait... So far, there shouldn't be any serious hatred between me and Snape, right?

It seems that in the original book, Snape hated Lockhart like that, and it was solved with just a "mangyu you bastard" in the ring, no matter what happens now... I hope so.

"Ravenclaw can fail, but every failure should increase our knowledge." Lockhart said solemnly to Flitwick.

"That's right," Flitwick agreed.

Chapter 30 Labantai

Although Lockhart collected the students' homework before class on Thursday and Friday, he hadn't come to look at it urgently.On weekends, he has to take a day out to correct homework, and at night he has to reply to letters from readers.

I almost forgot that the famous savior will come to do school work.In this way, if he wanted to go to Hogsmeade, he could only use Sunday.

But on Monday he has class again... So this Sunday night, he is doomed to stay overnight at the Three Broomsticks, what a tragedy.

While grading the students' homework, Lockhart was thinking about the "demonstration duel" with Snape, and unknowingly missed the lunch time until the Hogwarts house elf came to knock on the door Only then did he realize that he was too preoccupied

What fascinated him was the students' homework, especially the ones he gave "excellent".

Like other professors, homework grades are also graded according to six grades: "Exceeding the table (), exceeding expectations (E), passing (A), poor (P), terrible (D), and trolls (T)" .

In fact, there are only a few assignments that can be rated as "off the charts" by Lockhart, and there are only three that he singles out.

One of them was in the second grade, and the other two were in the fourth grade. What the rest of the students could achieve was already the result of Lockhart's face.

For example, in the first grade, the homework essays are basically talking about the magic that helps them escape.

Those who can think of using the cloud spell to confuse the line of sight and throw the spell in reverse to escape, Lockhart usually gives a pass; those who think of playing bait to attract the enemy's attention, Lockhart

Hart would give an E.

Lockhart will only give a 9" to those who both consider covering up their whereabouts and sending out a distress signal, and finally use various means to delay the time."

——Well, you don't really think that you can escape from dark wizards and magical creatures by learning the Cloud Mist Curse, do you?If you don't send a distress signal, you will still be caught sooner or later.

Similarly, when the second graders were still writing spells for various titles, Hermione had already realized the coordination problem of different wizards.

"Every wizard has his own strengths and weaknesses. This means that in a cooperative battle, it is the best solution for everyone to use their strengths and make up for their weaknesses..."

Of course, Lockhart had to give this kind of realization, and added a note inviting her to join his dueling club on the homework.

If the expectations for Hermione were "come true", another wizard's paper surprised Lockhart too much.

After two lessons in the first week, Hufflepuff's Cedric Diggory was the first to discover part of the dueling mysteries.

"Duel is not a plane, but a three-dimensional space like Quidditch. In the past, duels emphasized too much on the speed and accuracy of shots, as well as the power and type of spells, but ignored the importance of space utilization and effective spell output. .and now we will rediscover it under the guidance of Professor Lockhart (well written! says Lockhart)

Whether it's the Stunning Curse, the Crushing Curse, the Cutting Curse or the Killing Curse, as long as it hits, one of the enemies can be rendered incapacitated.

On the contrary, as long as it is not a sneak attack or one party is careless, it is rare for a wizard duel to be directly overwhelmed by a spell.Therefore, the cognition of spatial positioning and the frequency of casting effective spells will directly determine the outcome of the battle.

Especially in group combat, it squeezes the opponent's room for movement..."

Seeing this, Lockhart gave Cedric Diggory one without hesitation, and attached a comment, saying that the reason for giving him this grade was because he could only give such a score at the highest.

A talent like this will shine everywhere. Cedric Diggory is worthy of the name of a true Hogwarts warrior. He has already made his mark in the fourth year. It must be a matter of time before he shines.

Lockhart really has a heart for talents—not to mention the awareness of being a "united front" as a politician, but even from the perspective of a teacher, it is difficult for him not to have a good impression of such students.

Lockhart immediately wrote a letter to the Ministry of Magic after eating the lunch brought by the house-elf, and the recipient of the letter was Mr. Amos Diggory of the Department of Control and Management of Fantastic Beasts.

Although he only chatted with the future colleagues of the Department of Magical Disasters for a short time, Lockhart has already cleverly found out the situation of many people in the Ministry of Magic through his speech skills. Except for the Department of Mysteries, it is really difficult for him to inquire. Except for the rest, he has a general understanding of the rest.

Sometimes he would even think that with the Ministry of Magic's defenseless and defenseless defenses, there is no need for Voldemort and the Death Eaters to use the Imperius Curse at all. If the government of the Muggle world is like this, then From the inside out, I fear that all employees will be the enemy's spies.

In the Ministry of Magic, Mr. Diggory can be said to be a well-known love child madman. He brags to his colleagues all day long how good his son is. The amnestics have complained about it many times.

If he knew that he also valued Cedric, Lockhart would gain another loyal ally in the Ministry of Magic.

So Lockhart simply praised Cedric to the sky in the letter, exhausting all the compliments he could think of. Although the letter itself was sent in the name of "hoping that parents would allow their children to join their own club", the whole 80% of the content of this article is about Cedric.

Lockhart wasn't afraid to be too nasty, because he knew Amos Digory would get his way.

With these homework, Lockhart has a reason to want to form his own team.

This year's fourth grade is full of talents - in addition to Cedric Diggory, the potential of the Weasley twins should not be underestimated. Also in Lockhart's search target.

In the second grade, there is the Savior Iron Triangle plus Neville, and the rest can be let go for the time being, and they will be added later.Although there were no particularly outstanding talents among the third-year students, in order to take care of Ravenclaw, Lockhart stuffed Eddie Camille and Qiu Zhang into it.

As for the first grade, it was the most—Lockhart put Ginny, Luna, and half of the students he recruited into the list.

On the fifth grade side, for balance, he bit the bullet and stuffed two Slytherins in.And these two Slytherins are related to the old walrus, Professor Horace Slughorn.

In view of the fact that Slughorn could still come out to fight in the final Battle of Hogwarts, Lockhart felt that the entire house should not be excluded, even if Slytherin's table before the final battle The front was indeed "empty".

There is no way, this is politics - even for a little "bias" of the pure-blood family, Lockhart has to dress himself up as a centrist.

Chapter 31 Looking for someone

It took Lockhart more than half a day to correct the homework of the seventh grade. When he finished correcting the homework and looked out the window, he found that it was already afternoon.

He is a little hesitant now, whether it is better to take a nap or go out to blow some air.

In order to bring him closer to Ravenclaw, Dumbledore kindly chose him a bedroom near the Ravenclaw tower.

Although it is possible to overlook most of the castle, the Black Lake, and the Forbidden Forest here, but at night, the whistling wind and the sound of thunder and rain will keep him awake at night.The first night Lockhart came to Hogwarts, he had to apply a "close ear plug" to himself before he fell asleep peacefully.

But this is not a long-term solution, not to mention whether someone will sneak in while he is asleep, even if something happens at night, he, as the teacher of the Defense Against the Dark Arts class, sleeps soundly, it would be too embarrassing.

It is precisely because of this that Lockhart can only force himself to get used to this environment, and sleep until he is too sleepy, and a rest at noon can make up for it.

Although Lockhart felt a little sleepy at this time, after seeing the rare good weather outside the window, he decided to go for a walk, inspect the Ravenclaw team, and find out the referee of Wednesday's duel class by the way.

After dismissing the girls who were ambushing around the office, Lockhart stepped out of the Hogwarts castle again after a long interval of one week, and walked towards the Forbidden Forest as soon as he left.

His target was very clear, and that was Hagrid's hut.

After coming to the fence of the cabin, Lockhart found that the chimney of the house was emitting smoke, and it was obvious that someone started a fire inside.

"Hagrid, are you there?" he called out.

Following a burst of clanging light and heavy footsteps, the door of the cabin opened, and a man who was two tall and shaped like a hill appeared at the door.

Although the door of the wooden house was not too narrow, the man still seemed to be struggling when he went out, and the door frame creaked for a while.

"Lockhart! Why are you here?" Hagrid looked a little surprised, "I thought you were thinking about how to show off in the castle again."

He slammed the door shut casually, and the cabin shook visibly with the slap, which made Lockhart worried for a while.

"It's been so many years, even if I'm in the limelight, I won't use that clumsy method again." Lockhart replied half-truthfully, "Good afternoon: Hagrid

Hagrid answered him carelessly: "Good afternoon! Long time no see, little Lockhart. Speaking of which, you have graduated for ten years, and I'm still waiting for you to become the captain of the England Quidditch team!"

"Ahem..." Lockhart choked.

Hagrid and Voldemort are in the same age group, older than Harry's parents, and Lockhart's generation is a little later than Harry's parents. Hagrid was a hunting ground when he was still in school. Guarded, so Hagrid remembered all the "rhetoric words" he said when he was young.

"It seems that there is a little accident now..." Lockhart said helplessly, "If I choose to play, I am destined to have no way to become an adventurer, let alone become the Minister of Magic."

He was not afraid to expose his ambitions to Hagrid. Anyway, Hagrid was rough and hadn't dealt with many people, and he was one of Dumbledore's confidantes. Talking to him was almost like talking to Dumbledore himself. .

Sure enough, Hagrid laughed.

'So you haven't given up on 'being the youngest Minister for Magic' ah.If you ask me, no way, that big fool Fudge wants to tie the chair he's sitting on to his ass... Now that you're here, let's get in! "

As he spoke, he stepped aside, motioning for Lockhart to go in first.

This big man was as straightforward as the rumors said, and he said everything in person, which reassured Lockhart a lot. At least when dealing with such a person, you don't have to worry about him playing tricks on you.

Lockhart sniffed around after entering the house: "Strange smell... What are you cooking?"

"It's a slug. After you boil it, you can use it to neutralize dragon dung and grow those pumpkins. Putting it directly on dragon dung will burn the pumpkins." Hagrid answered casually.

"Where do so many slugs come from? Slugs without horns are not even medicinal materials, but not many people are willing to touch them."

Hagrid pointed to a large copper basin in the corner: "Isn't it a coincidence? There was a student this morning—I don't know if you recognize him, the sixth child of the Weasley family—he had a problem with his wand, When I cast a slug spell on someone, the spell bounced back, and I vomited slugs all morning, so I just use it as waste."

"Has he got a new wand yet? That's going to be a big problem sooner or later."

After a few gossips, Hagrid brought a large teapot for Lockhart, and poured thick-colored tea into it.

"Do you want more milk? I have milk from horned camels here."

"No, thank you." Lockhart said hastily, "Let's get down to business, I'm actually here to ask you two things."

"I knew you wouldn't come looking for something, so tell me, I'm listening." Hagrid didn't care.

"Then I will say, first thing, the Ravenclaw team is going to be on the other side of the river.

A training field was opened on the back slope of the mountain.

"That piece of land is very good. It's a good place to play. You Ravenclaws do have a vision." Hagrid knew what he was talking about as soon as he heard it.

"It's just that the land is on the edge of the Forbidden Forest, so it might be a bit dangerous. Although they said they would ride a broom, there's no guarantee that Bludgers won't jump into the forest." Lockhart added.